Section 22-10-3-12 - Certification required for employment; persons certified in other states; inexperienced miner identification pending certification(a) It is unlawful for any person to serve in the capacity of mine foreman, mine examiner, shot-firer, hoisting engineer, mine electrician, or belt examiner at any time unless the person is properly certified. However, any person who meets the appropriate experience requirements of this chapter and who is properly certified in one (1) of these capacities or its equivalent in another state which recognizes the certification of Indiana may serve in such a capacity until the next examination by the board, when the person must apply to the board for certification in the person's particular classification. A mine electrician who is properly certified:(1) by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration; or(2) in another state that recognizes the mine electrician certification in Indiana; may serve in the individual's certified capacity and be issued a mine electrician certificate by the director in Indiana without the requirement of applying to the board for examination. However, the individual must obtain an Indiana miner's certificate of competency from the director.
(b) It is unlawful for an operator in this state to employ any person in the capacity of mine superintendent, assistant mine superintendent, mine foreman, mine examiner, shot-firer, hoisting engineer, mine electrician, or belt examiner at any time unless the person is properly certified.(c) Before any person certified in another state may perform in the capacity of mine superintendent, assistant mine superintendent, mine foreman, mine examiner, shot-firer, hoisting engineer, mine electrician, or belt examiner in Indiana, the person must present personally to the director evidence of the out-of-state certificate or certificates.(d) Every inexperienced miner is required to wear an orange hard hat until the miner receives a certificate of competency.Amended by P.L. 10-2012, SEC. 5, eff. 2/29/2012.(Formerly: Acts 1955, c.168, s.26; Acts1971 , P.L. 358, SEC.6.) As amended by Acts1979 , P.L. 231, SEC.6; P.L. 231-1983, SEC.9; P.L. 37-1985, SEC.50; P.L. 112-1992, SEC.7; P.L. 35-2007, SEC.17.